Chicken & Quinoa Florentine Bake

This is an adaptation of a recipe I found on Better Homes & Gardens website.  I find this site has some of the best recipes primed for adaptation!

We have made it with pasta, as the original recipe states, and it is delicious, but I wanted something with less carbs and more protein and quinoa is just that!

Quinoa is one of those 'in' ingredients right now, there are recipes available on all the coolest sites, but "why quinoa?" I hear you cry! So here is a link to tell you all you need to know, well at least some of the basics! Quinoa

We recently made this for a weekend away, well actually I made about double the amount any normal human can eat, as usual, so we decided to save the second batch and have it a few days later.  It kept really well, refrigerated obviously, and reheated really well too, so bear that in mind as you will want it again and again!

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Easiest Banana Bread in the whole world!

We LOVE Banana Bread and we often get the chance to make it as we regularly buy bananas and let them get beyond their best so they either get thrown out or salvage and made into delicious bread!

We recently purchased a Vitamix.....and I am in love with it! I have wanted one for a while after I saw a couple of friends using them and realized the full extent of their capabilities. I could go on but I will not bore you with the details here.....but I will regularly use them in recipes as they speed up the preparation time enormously.

In the cookbook that accompanied our Vitamix, I found this wonderful recipe for banana bread.  It is the quickest and easiest recipe I have ever used, and it actually takes longer to get out all the ingredients and wash up than it does to make the bread!

Also, this recipe has hardly any fat or sugar in it, and uses whole wheat flour so it is a very healthy alternative to other cakes and breads....and did I mention that it's delicious!!!
I wanted to share it with you as it really is too delicious and needs to be shared with the world!
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